Frei Otto Quotes
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
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Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.